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QUESTIONS ABOUT SERVER ADMINISTRATION ARE OFF-TOPIC. Consider https://serverfault.com for those. Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform from Amazon Web Services. NOTE: Since there are a number of OS options available on Lightsail, it will help people answer your question if you indicate what blueprint you are using.

Amazon Lightsail is a simplified and minimalistic Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform, part of the Amazon Web Sevices infrastructure. Questions about professional server administration should typically be posted on Server Fault.

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What is difference between Lightsail and EC2?

Recently Amazon launched Lightsail. Is there any difference between them? If yes, then what's the difference? Are Lightsail instances more powerful than EC2?
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AWS - What are the exact differences between EC2, Beanstalk and LightSail?

What are the exact differences between EC2, Beanstalk and LightSail in AWS? What are good real time scenarios in which I should use these services?
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SSL/TLS Certificates for Lightsail?

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) provides SSL/TLS certificates for AWS users. Does it apply to Lightsail users as well? If not, is there any instructions or advises on setting up SSL certificates on Lightsail server?
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How do I connect to a new Amazon Lightsail instance from my Mac?

I've created a new NodeJS instance on Amazon Lightsail, and wish to connect to it from my Mac's command line. Not sure how to include the required SSH key in the connection command when it says Permission denied (publickey).
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Is it possible to have cron job running on Amazon lightsail instance?

I would like to set up periodic jobs on an Amazon Lightsail instance, but I can find no information on it - only for Amazon EC2. Is it possible to issue cron jobs on a lightsail instance, or do I need to change to EC2?
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Are Amazon Lightsail instances managed / automatically updated?

I have been looking into Amazon Lightsail, but there is one thing that I haven't been able to find any information on. Are instances managed and updated automatically? In particular, I thinking of OS / web server security updates. With EC2, I have…
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Sorry, you've reached your maximum limit of Lightsail Instances : 2

In a normal account (no AWS Free Tier), when attempting to create more than two Lightsail instances in the same region I get CreateInstances [eu-west-2] Sorry, you've reached your maximum limit of Lightsail Instances : 2. If you're new to…
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Access Lightsail Instance's database with MySQL Workbench

I have an Amazon Lightsail Ubuntu multi WordPress site set up with bitnami stack. I'm looking for a way to access the Instance's database on Amazon Lightsail with MySQL Workbench remotely. Please note that I do not have a seperate Lightsail…
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How can I login to PHPMyAdmin on AWS Lightsail?

I just set up an AWS Lightsail account and chose the LAMP installation, provided by Bitnami. According to the Bitnami documentation, to connect to PHPMyAdmin, you create an SSH tunnel and browse to the path giving. Great, I can see the login page,…
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Can I setup an ssl certificate for AWS lightsail without the Load Balancer?

I have an instance built with ubuntu 16.04, it has 2 applications (no bitnami) I setup the vhost pointing two differenst website and it works fine but now that I'm trying to validate the ssl certificate I've been struggling first, at all, I would…
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Can I use AWS LightSail with AWS CloudWatch?

I've recently started testing out LightSail, but I would like to keep my logging centralized in CloudWatch, but cannot seem to find anything that would enable this. Interestingly LightSail instances do not appear in the EC2 Dashboard. I thought they…
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View UI interface generated by Apache Airflow webserver running on virtual machine

I know that when you run airflow webserver via your home terminal, you can view the UI interface by going to http://localhost:8080. I am able to do this. However, I have a virtual Amazon Lightsail instance which I ssh into. I then jump into a…
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Possible to docker exec a Lightsail Container instance?

I need to run some CLI scripts from inside the container. I would usually do this with docker exec. Is there a way to do this with Lightsail Containers or an equivalent way to run CLI scripts from inside the container? Note: I am specifically…
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Deployment options using Amazon Lightsail?

We're looking to host a number of small projects on Amazon Lightsail. For larger projects we use Codepipeline to manage deployments from github. Is there a similar option available to push deployments from github to a lightsail instance for…
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How do I force terraform to recreate a resource?

I have two resources: resource "aws_lightsail_instance" "myserver-sig" { name = "myserver-Sig" availability_zone = "eu-west-2a" blueprint_id = "ubuntu_20_04" bundle_id = "nano_2_0" key_pair_name =…
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